What was the last scientific or engineering breakthrough that actually mattered for anyone who isn't a fart huffing university researcher?
The integrated circuit?
Seems like everything is just bullshit

>>16693461 (OP)
CRISPR-Cas9 off the top of my head if you want something major.
>inb4 it doesn't matter to me
It will when you get cancer.

>>16694047
crisp doesnt work
>>16694047
>It will when you get cancer.
It causes cancer. Its wildly innacurate and tears up DNA, which shills call "editing"

>>16693461 (OP)
atmospheric plasmas are kind of a big deal - already seeing applications in medicine and material treatment and it could replace ammonia-based fertilizer in a few years.

>>16694934
Anon they literally use it on children to cure otherwise chronic conditions now. You are a unread fucking moron

>>16694934
Yes Anon I'm sure you will stay consistent in your beliefs if you get cancer and get a 2 month prognosis without it. You definitely won't piss your pants and beg to have it used.

>>16693461 (OP)
Superhydrophobic spray is the reason electronics produce in the last decade have been significantly more durable and water resistance, but you obviously didn't even notice.

>>16694957
>Anon they literally use it on children to cure o
Doesnt work
>>16694966
>You definitely won't piss your pants and beg to have it used.
Not an argument and what difference would it make? Patients with terminal diseases try everything. Fun fact: Sometimes cancer cures on its own, most cancers are never detected and either cure on their own or grow so slow people die of something else before the cancer gets noticeable

>>16695039
>Not an argument
It is.
>what difference would it make?
That you'd trust it to do something.
> Patients with terminal diseases try everything
I'm not aware of any terminal cancer patients swallowing gallons of cum but let us know how it goes for you.

>>16695039
>Doesnt work
So the kids are all just pretending their sickle cell disappeared?

>>16695058
>It is.
Its not.
>>16695058
>That you'd trust it to do something.
People also pray and try everything. Doesnt mean the treatment works.
>>16695058
>but let us know how it goes for you.
I dont have cancer, why would i try anything to cure cancer?
>>16695062
>So the kids are all just pretending their sickle cell disappeared?
Statistically null effect

>>16693461 (OP)
LLMs are currently in the process of burning down the school system and the public-facing internet. hard to argue they don't matter, even if you think their potential for positive applications is overhyped.

>>16695564
>LLMs are currently in the process of burning down the school system and the public-facing internet
Their potential impact is being blown wildly out of proportion. The people acting like fucking ChatGPT is going to replace formal education in a few years are the people who, 20 years ago, were making the same claims about Wikipedia and, 30 years ago, were making the same claims about the internet and search engines in general. It's not gonna happen. Education will adapt to LLMs, kids will still rely on flesh and blood people to teach them reading, writing, math, science, history, etc. They'll just have one more tool or resource to use.

>>16695573
chatgpt is currently not adequate to replace a teacher, but it's entirely adequate to replace a student at writing undergraduate B-grade essays and completing homework assignments, by which method it is murdering the entire education system.
i said "burning down" and not "replacing" for a reason.

>>16695564
>LLMs burning down the school system and the public-facing internet
Holy shit put down the crack pipe dude

>>16695608
social media is rapidly becoming unusable due to the tide of slop and college students are currently behaving as chatGPT wrappers.

>>16695609
Says who, you? Are you one of those worldcoin shills begging the question

>>16695573
LLM's are able to source any and all information from any and all sources on the internet, and even to a rudimentary extent, produce it's own "novel" (not technically I know but look at Deepseek), content. It's what you make of it, more or less, but in the same way Wikipedia is used to supercharge geniuses who can learn Calculus, etc. on their own, this will also exponentially increase the rate of learning for not just the highest intellectual bracket of society but all people (assuming people use it to actually learn and not just pass tests). Same thing as the internet and Wikipedia, which each made it easier to get by without knowing a damn thing, having a distillation of all of humanity's knowledge in a single prompt (theoretically) designed to give you *exactly* what you need with a single prompt or prompts undoubtedly increases the efficiency of this pursuit of knowledge, as all other technological breakthroughs before did.

LLM's, even with how rudimentary they are, are for sure the groundwork for the next big breakthrough in technology. Think old Google or the beginning of FaceBook.

Sorry for any typo's but I'm in a meeting and don't have time to check

>>16695564
>LLMs are currently in the process of burning down the school system
Your far right wing propaganda has no power here. Go back to /pol/ and don't forget to tip musk, he needs you

>>16695610
no, worldcoin doesn't solve the problem of humans acting as skinsuits, just creates another incentive for identity theft.

>>16695609
Hahaha college studebts as GPT wrappers, amazing analogy

>>16695612
Btw I say this because ChatGPT, Grok, etc. are the reason my shitty teachers haven't doomed by prospects of passing college. ChatGPT explains things better than many of my teachers can/are willing to do, and it's available anytime, anywhere, and is able to explain nearly everything to you with near perfect accuracy. So basically a human level agent, if not better, at explaining things already within the corpus of human knowledge. Just like a human paid 100k a year to regurgitate old information... but better!

AI sleepers and doomers on suicide watch

>>16695615
>studebts
This portmanteau is realer tho lol

>>16695618
So real

>>16694047
crispr is complete bullshit. not a single paper on it is valid

>>16694957
you fell for propaganda

>>16695431
>Statistically null effect
Proof that the statisticians are just faking that kids are being cured of sickle cell via genetic treatments?

>>16695573
Wikipedia and the Internet did massively change formal education in the western world and are integrated into all levels of education now to the point that even kindergartners are given internet devices by schools now.